Provides voice and chat AI agents that qualify and convert leads for enterprises across education, real estate, BPO, D2C, automotive, healthcare, and BFSI. The company has added 15 customers in the two months since it launched the platform, with a number of clients processing 50-100K AI powered calls per month. Its customers, largely educational institutions, include Chanakya University, Madanapalle Institute of Technology & Science, Global Tree, Ambuja, Rainmaker, Pyrotech, and PU Sterling College. ₹1.2CR pre-seed round. Founded in Nov 2025, Udaipur based. Founders: Atishaya (IIM Calcutta '20) is ex-Flexport, Sprinklr and BCG; Abhinav and Gunjan were at Gateway International (study abroad consultants); Fivos founded Elite Architects AI in the US.

AI-native discovery and ticketing platform for live entertainment, across concerts, comedy, sports and more. Its conversational agent, Shadow, work with curators of experiences to help fans discover events through natural conversation vs. search. $3.75M pre-seed round, from Bollywood musicians Arijit Singh, Sunidhi Chauhan, and Badshah, alongside VSS Investco (Vijay Shekhar Sharma’s investment vehicle), Madhur Deora (Paytm), Shray Chandra (Capitalmind), VG Jairam (Hyperlink Brand Solutions). Founded in June 2026, Mumbai based. Founders: CEO Varun is Paytm Insider’s former COO (five years). Shreyas (VTU '04) was Paytm Insider's CEO (10 years) and worked as CPO of Consumer Products at Paytm following Insider's acquisition. Prior to this he founded Only Much Louder. Alaap has been a Partner at Tarsame Mittal Talent Management since 2013.

Provider of maritime intelligence for defence, national security, ports and commercial maritime operations, through two solutions/platforms. Its commercial maritime solution provides operational intelligence for ports, fleets, shipyards and fisheries through real-time visibility, regulatory compliance and performance optimisation. Its AI solution supports threat detection, adversary monitoring and persistent cross-domain situational awareness. Works with the Indian Navy, Coast Guard, Bharat Electronics, DRDO laboratories, Mumbai Port Authority, Dubai Maritime City and The Nature Conservancy. $2.2M round led by Pravega and Shastra VC. Angels in the round include Suraj Nalin (PlaySimple) and Yashwanth Madhusudhan (Fyle). Founded in Oct 2020, Bangalore based. CEO Roshan and Avinash (doctorate in artificial intelligence from Imperial College London) are IIT Madras alumni (BTech + MTech degrees). Roshan was a product engineer at Siemens Electric for under a year, while Co-Founder & Chief Scientist Avinash spent six months with Elaitra in the UK.

Develops Physical-AI foundation models to train industrial robot arms to learn tasks through operator demonstrations. This is already being deployed in production environments, including an undisclosed automotive company, and high precision assembly applications across automotive and consumer electronics. $3M pre-seed round led by Version One Ventures, with participation from All In Capital, Unisol, iSeed. Angel investors include Soumith Chintala (Thinking Machines), Adarsh Kulkarni (Foundry Robotics), Ashish Kulkarni (GrayMatter), Vaibhav Domkundwar (Better Capital). Founded in June 2019, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Puru (IIT Guwahati, Carnegie Mellon MS specialising in robotics '17) was a robotics engineer at Near Earth Autonomy (navigation systems for aerial drones), CBO Adityanag (RV College of Engineering '01) was most recently VP of Hardware Product Engineering at Sensara Technologies, Safar (IIT Madras) was a manager at Tata Steel for a year before joining Mowito as a robotics engineer in 2021.

Platform providing AI agents for customer research - automating interviews, surveys and analysis while adding human researcher oversight. Its AI can conduct interviews with hundreds of customers simultaneously and generate reports along with video clips and customer quotes, in a matter of hours. $300K/₹2.5CR pre-seed round led by AJVC. Founded in Jan 2025, Bangalore based. Founders: CEO Sreenadh (Anna University Chennai '10; University of Rochester - Simon Business School '16) and CTO Dhara (IIT Madras) are Entrepreneur First EIRs who first founded Friendly Brands Club, a network of digital-first consumer brands that work together to unlock new sales for the entire ecosystem.

Positioned as an AI-native consumer brands platform, with an initial focus on launching nutrition and wellness products. Brands will be built with an operating platform working across three proprietary AI engines. "Resonance" focuses on audience building and consumer insights; "Nucleus" analyzes audience demand signals around products; "Meridian" is focused on marketing, across creative testing, media buying, budget allocation and optimizing ROAS. The company is actively seeking experts/ practitioners in the wellness space who bring clinical experience and will partner with them to build their online content engine and audience, launch products with them, and drive sales. ₹42CR seed round. Founded in Apr 2025, Mumbai based. Founders: Kashyap (BIT, Mesra; IIM Calcutta) was CMO at Pepperfry for a decade, prior to which he was with eBay India for ~five years, including as CMO. Ravi (Andhra Univ. '03; BIM Tiruchirapalli '06) was Co-Founder at Doubtnut (2020-23) at CBO at Vedantu. Ravi is also ex eBay India (leading digital marketing, and fashion and lifestyle). Anubhav (VESIT; University of Maryland Baltimore County) was MD at Dentsu APAC, and was Co-Founder & CEO of Merkle Sokrati for 14 years, which was acquired by Dentsu. He is a former software engineer from Amazon.

AI-led credit infrastructure startup enabling financial institutions to launch asset-backed credit cards and credit lines. Asset backing is against FDs, mutual funds and equities. The company has partnered with seven banks including of India's largest public sector banks. The platform powers 200K active cards, with 40K new cards issued every month, now accounting for 8% of India's monthly credit card issuance. "“India does not have a shortage of assets. It has a shortage of infrastructure that can convert those assets into usable credit". $2.8M seed round led by Arkam, with participation from GrowthCap Ventures (which led the $1.8M pre-seed round in Jun 2025), Razorpay Ventures and Atrium Angels. Angels include Kunal Shah and Madhusudhan E. (KreditBee). Founded in Oct 2022, Bangalore based. Founders: Pawan Kumar. Founders: CEO Pawan (VTU '12) was former head of Applied Science at Uber India and was Data Science Manager at LinkedIn. CTO Srinivas (Army Institute of Technology ' 05; IIM Lucknow '13) was former Technical Lead at BNP Paribas, and is ex AMP (wealth management and banking in Australia) and Wipro.

AI-native coordination platform that maps organisational knowledge across tools like Slack, email, docs, meeting records, and code repositories like GitHub. The platform reduces dependence on individual employees for access to company information. Users can ask questions in natural language and receive responses which link to underlying sources. $525K pre-seed round at a $7.5M valuation. Founded in Dec 2025, Gurgaon based. The founders are students, Arhan, 18, is studying AI at U Penn and Sarthak, 19, is studying computer science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

AI data infrastructure startup which builds licensed, provenance-backed datasets for AI foundation models, embodied AI, robotics and autonomous systems. The company partners with content owners, production houses, studios, archives, institutions, and contributor networks to source, license, and structure real world data for AI training. Focused on India, SE Asia and other markets in the Global South. $500K pre-seed round led by Venture Catalysts' angel network. Founded in Jun 2025, Singapore based. Founders: Sunil, Sabari, Dushyant, Anil. Sunil (Savitribai Phule Pune University B.S. '93; Master's '96) was MD - APAC at Firework (shoppable video solutions for brands) and COO at ALTBalaji's OTT; Sabari (Coimbatore Institute of Technology '01; IISc '04) is a researcher on vision-language models at ANU in Canberra; Dushyant (D.U. '96; Welingkar Institute of Management '99) was Co-Founder at SmartViz (visual inspection automation); Amit (University of Tasmania '03; Haas School of Business '08) was Deputy Director Manufacturing of Wearable Health Solutions for Space Medicine at ANU.

Voice-first AI tutoring platform for school and competitive exam prep. Akin to a teacher with a whiteboard, the platform offers real-time audio conversations and a live interactive sketchpad, allowing the AI tutor to draw diagrams and work through problems while explaining concepts aloud. While this is K-12, this is particularly used by students in classes 9-12, who undertake board exam prep along with their prep for JEE, NEET and CUET. The platform works in 22 languages including Hindi and Hinglish, with AI avatar versions of real school teachers for partner institutions. 200K users till date, across app and web. $500K/₹4.3CR pre-seed round at a $5M valuation, co-led by DataAlpha.ai and White Swan Global. Founded in Jan 2025, Noida based. Founder & CEO Kirti (IIT BHU '07) was AVP and Head of CET at PhysicsWallah; prior to which he founded real-time doubt-solving platform, Puchoto (i.e., "just ask").